Re: Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-17 Thread Bluefuture
> > - We must improve and doesn't trash tests made in unstable: > > Why do we need to do that? A package which is clearly improved or outdated > does not need any testing. Because, for example if i release three revision of a package in a month and i upload in unstable, it is in a good status

Debian as living system

2005-05-17 Thread Bluefuture
Actually debian has three distro "level": unstable testing and stable. There are some policy for packages entering in testing but for stable we must to go "on freeze when ready" and fix all remain rc bugs before release. With this proposal i want to remove the release concept but we need some infr

dehs-devel mailinglist

2005-03-11 Thread Bluefuture
I had opened a dehs[1] development mailing list[2] on alioth to coordinate issues and work. Anybody want discuss ideas, improve or work on dehs an watch file system could subscribe to the list[3]. Thanks, Stefano [1] http://dehs.alioth.debian.org [2] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [3] http://lists.alioth.deb

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Bluefuture
>The community might start considering it less useless if an >explanation of what it is supposed to be good for was actually >available. In particular, why should a maintainer care about watch >files if he uses something else than uscan to keep track of upstream >happenings? >From time to time, th

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Bluefuture
>I know that I thougt dehs per se not too useful, but the watch section >on qa.d.o has inspired me to write watch files for two of my packages. >Not much (2 out of 7), admittedly, but I think that it's fairly useful. >I think the experimental columns are overkill (as people packaging >experimental

dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Bluefuture
After another gruelling discussion on #debian-devel about the useless of dehs and the lack of watch file (75,60% of non native debian packages doesn't had one), I think that dehs is start to begin only my own personal toys, so i'm thinking to stop it and to leave alioth resources and put my develop

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-28 Thread Bluefuture
>What do you do with packages that have uncooperative upstream and thus >a watch file is not possible? > >apg's web host, for example, doesn't support directory listings, so I >had to resort on checking the fingerprint of the download web page to >find out whether there is a new release. > >Greetin

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-28 Thread Bluefuture
Il giorno mer, 26-01-2005 alle 09:02 +0100, Free Ekanayaka ha scritto: > Thanks for this effort. > > Would it make sense to support queries of dehs by maintainer email > address? > > This ways it would be easier for people to check the status of their > own packages. This functionality is

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-25 Thread Bluefuture
Il giorno mar, 25-01-2005 alle 13:56 +0100, Wouter Verhelst ha scritto: > I'm not convinced having a watch file is always useful. > I agree with you. > I would hope a maintainer would follow the announcements of the software I agree with this. Dehs/Watch is not a system for bypassing upstream ma

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-25 Thread Bluefuture
Il giorno mar, 25-01-2005 alle 07:49 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto: > Bluefuture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The dehs system now is regular running again every two days on alioth > > (and so also on the info feed to developer.php on qa). > > Looking

try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-24 Thread Bluefuture
The dehs system now is regular running again every two days on alioth (and so also on the info feed to developer.php on qa). Looking at no_watch page[1] there are: Total source packages without watch file: 6324 Total source packages: 8285 %: 76,33% But seems also that there are: 1621 package

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Bluefuture
Another interesting link is Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software on Linux: http://www.linuxeda.com/ Cheers, Blue.

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Bluefuture
Try to take a look to this http://lists.duskglow.com/open-graphics/ about problems, solutions and ASIC vs FPGA proposed for a real project to build a open design 2d/3d graphic card. Cheers, Blue.

pmount vs updfstab

2004-10-09 Thread Bluefuture
Actually Ubuntu Linux uses pmount: pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. Together with hal and gnome-volume-manager (or similar programs) this will provide fully automatic device handling wit